Quote: (06-09-2016 01:23 PM)seniol Wrote:
From the official statistics:
More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese.
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-informat...stics.aspx
It gets even better. Since BMI is such a flawed measure, it actually underestimates obesity in most cases.
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First, 29% of subjects classified as normal weight and 80% of individuals classified as overweight according to BMI had a body fat percentage within the obese range. Thus, on an individual basis BMI tends to consistently underestimate a person’s adiposity. This data implies that there are many individuals who don’t weigh that much on an absolute scale, but a large proportion of their weight is composed of fat tissue. These are people who may look thin, but tend to be soft, with little muscle tone. In a clinical setting, these folks may easily be overlooked by their physician due to their “normal weight.”
Conversely, approximately 5% of individuals classified as overweight and 0.2% of those classified as obese by BMI actually had low levels of fat mass. These individuals would be the bodybuilders of the bunch – high absolute body weight that is composed mostly of muscle mass. This is often the line of argument used to illustrate how ineffective BMI is at measuring adiposity. And yet, as I’ve criticized before, the misclassification in this direction appears to occur only rarely. This simply suggests there are simply few body builders around. More importantly, any physician should be able to conclude that the patient in front of them with a BMI of 31 kg/m2 is not actually obese when their biceps are bigger than their waist.
source: http://blogs.plos.org/obesitypanacea/201...lly-obese/
This confirms my viewpoint that girls with a BMI over 20 are simply unattractively fat (except for the rare case of a girl who is seriously into strength sports), despite being perfectly healthy according to every mainstream source.